Designed for home birth and hospital providers, this workshop will challenge you and your colleagues to address your fears and concerns about transfers from planned home births into the hospital. What guidelines can hospital staff follow when accepting a home birth transfer? What can home birth providers do to ease the transfer? What are the basic safety statistics of home birth and freestanding birth centers, and what is needed to make home birth even safer?

The Savvy Birth Pro Seminar #1- Normalizing Home Birth Transfers (1.5 contact hours) was developed by Evidence Based Birth® This workshop will challenge you and your colleagues to address your fears and concerns about transfers from planned home births into the hospital.

 Evidence Based Birth® is a continuing education provider for the Kentucky Board of Nursing # 7-0081. Nursing contact hours can be applied to most childbirth educator and doula certifications as well as the Certified Professional Midwife credential. This seminar has also been approved for 1.5 contact hours from the American College of Nurse Midwives (2017/094), and we applied for 1.5 prescribed credits from the American Academy of Family Physicians.

 

This Savvy Birth Pro Workshop is taught by Ruth Kraft CLD CCCE FOCEP EBB instructor,  Former CAPPA Faculty trainer for Labor Doula and Childbirth Education

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Discuss research evidence on the safety of home birth
  2. Describe how we can increase the safety of home birth transfers to the hospital
  3. List ways to improve the client’s experience during a home-hospital transfer
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Contact hours: By attending the workshop and completing an online evaluation, you will earn a certificate for 1.5 contact hours from Evidence Based Birth®, a continuing education provider for the Kentucky Board of Nursing # 7-0081. Nursing contact hours can be applied to most childbirth educator and doula certifications, as well as the Certified Professional Midwife credential.

Refund policy: Tickets are non-refundable, but may be transferred to future workshops or seminars.

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